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A solitary soldier from the First World War stands sentinel on Dronfield's simple war memorial in the main street, opposite the White Swan public house (the licensee in 1965 was Alfred Edward Greeves).

Behind the old post office, now an extended house, is the railway line, with the nearest station at Kiplingcotes.

To the right is the old school house, now today's post office. Far right is the base of the market cross.

The spacious market place or square in the centre of the Wensleydale village of Masham is surrounded by fine 18th- and 19th-century houses, with the ancient market cross under the trees as its centrepiece

Church House was built in the High Street next to the minster in 1906 at a cost of £2,870 14s 11d. It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury.

This splendid early 19th-century house is the former rectory. The symmetrical front has five window bays; the central bay over the porch has rounded tops.

The building at the far right now houses the West Stockwith Yacht Club, and was extended in the 1970s.

The only change to this scene is that the house on the left is now a barn, which is unusual.

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

This rural lane leading to Kettering was to change dramatically in the 1930s, when it would be bordered by large detached houses with elaborate gardens.

Many old merchant's houses here are faced with granite ashlar to bring them a more sophisticated face. Behind, however, they are slate-hung in the traditional Cornish manner.

Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.

The houses of Middleborough grew up beyond the town walls and the north gate, which was demolished in 1823.

Many of these houses rented out rooms to summer lodgers who were unable to afford bed and board in more prestigious hotels.

It was founded by Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, to house the remains of St Oswald, and it is located in the area now known as Kingsholm.

Rushton Road, at the east end of Station Road, is a mix of Victorian terrace housing and factories.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School

In April 1941 the house suffered some damage during an air raid, but it was in good enough repair to provide Winston Churchill, then the local MP, and his wife with luncheon whilst touring the district

On the left, just below the skyline, is Hillsborough Terrace, and in front of it is Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey`s house, now the Cliff Hydro Hotel.

The village is in a Conservation area, with plenty of brick-built thatched houses in its centre.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

The shop and the building beside it have since been converted into a private house.

Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white. Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop.